BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20180226T143000Z DTEND:20180226T200000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Grow Your Business through Social Media & E-Commerce DESCRIPTION:"Grow Your Business through Social Media and E-Commerce"\n\n\n\nCost:\n\n$10 for businesses located in the Downtown Concord Municipal Service District\n\n$10 for Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce Members\n\n$15 for non-chamber members and businesses outside of Downtown Concord\n\n\n\nRegistration Deadline: February 19\, 2018\n\nRegister online here: https://www.concorddowntown.com/Events/EventDetails/TabId/171/ArtMID/628/ArticleID/709/Grow-Your-Business-through-Social-Media-E-Commerce.aspx\n\n\n\nPresenters:\n\nMorning sessions - Melanie Diehl\, Public Speaker for Google GYBO | Email Marketing Expert | Social Media Marketing Pro\n\nAfternoon sessions - Jeanne Eury\, Traditional and Digital Marketing Professional | Trainer and Keynote Speaker | Small Business Sales and Marketing Consultant | Concord Native\n\n\n\nWorkshop Schedule:\n\n\n\nGrow your Business Online\n\n9:30 am- 10:45 am\n\nLearn how customers find your business online and how to promote your online presence with search engine optimization (SEO) and online advertising. We also introduce tools to help you run your business online\, including Google Analytics and G Suite.\n\n\n\nGet Found on Search & Maps\n\n11:00 am - noon\n\nThis presentation introduces Google My Business\, a free tool to manage your business information across Google. It's the easiest way to help your business be found online.\n\n\n\nLunch included in registration\n\n\n\nIf you build it\, they don't just come\n\n12:30 pm 2:00 pm\n\nThis session helps you understand:\n\n- Why you need a marketing plan and how to determine your strategy\n\n- Gain an understanding of the best advertising and marketing methods\, traditional and online\, for a small business\n\n- Why email marketing is still the least expensive and best way to increase customers and sales\n\nThis session includes a brief overview of the most popular marketing options (Facebook\, Pinterest\, Instagram\, Twitter)\, which ones work best for each type of business\, how to allocate your focus\, and how to integrate your contacts\, word-of-mouth\, reviews\, website\, blog\, FB page\, and other marketing for maximum return.\n\n\n\nE-Commerce Why and How\, it doesn't have to be complicated!\n\n2:15 pm 2:45 pm\n\nE-commerce is more important than ever to brick and mortar businesses. Learn how to set up an ecommerce site that is not difficult to launch and maintain. This session also covers how large of an e-commerce site is needed to benefit your overall business plan. Even businesses who currently have an e-commerce site will benefit from this session. \n\n\n\n2:30 pm 3:00 pm Final Questions X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"\;Grow Your Business through Social Media and E-Commerce&rdquo\;
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\nCost:
\n$10 for businesses located in the Downtown Concord Municipal Service District
\n$10 for \;Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce \;Members
\n$15 for non-chamber members and businesses outside of Downtown Concord
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\nRegistration Deadline: February 19\, 2018
\nRegister online here: \;https://www.concorddowntown.com/Events/EventDetails/TabId/171/ArtMID/628/ArticleID/709/Grow-Your-Business-through-Social-Media-E-Commerce.aspx
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\nPresenters:
\nMorning sessions - Melanie Diehl\, Public Speaker for Google GYBO | Email Marketing Expert | Social Media Marketing Pro
\nAfternoon sessions - \;Jeanne Eury\, Traditional and Digital Marketing Professional | Trainer and Keynote Speaker | Small Business Sales and Marketing Consultant | Concord Native
\n
\nWorkshop Schedule:
\n
\nGrow your Business Online
\n9:30 am- 10:45 am
\nLearn how customers find your business online and how to promote your online presence with search engine optimization (SEO) and online advertising. We also introduce tools to help you run your business online\, including Google Analytics and G Suite.
\n
\nGet Found on Search &\; Maps
\n11:00 am - noon
\nThis presentation introduces Google My Business\, a free tool to manage your business information across Google. It&rsquo\;s the easiest way to help your business be found online.
\n
\nLunch &ndash\; included in registration
\n
\nIf you build it\, they don&rsquo\;t just come
\n12:30 pm &ndash\; 2:00 pm
\nThis session helps you understand:
\n- Why you need a marketing plan and how to determine your strategy
\n- Gain an understanding of the best advertising and marketing methods\, traditional and online\, for a small business
\n- Why email marketing is still the least expensive and best way to increase customers and sales
\nThis session includes a brief overview of the most popular marketing options (Facebook\, Pinterest\, Instagram\, Twitter)\, which ones work best for each type of business\, how to allocate your focus\, and how to integrate your contacts\, word-of-mouth\, reviews\, website\, blog\, FB page\, and other marketing for maximum return.
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\nE-Commerce &ndash\; Why and How\, it doesn&rsquo\;t have to be complicated!
\n2:15 pm &ndash\; 2:45 pm
\nE-commerce is more important than ever to brick and mortar businesses. Learn how to set up an ecommerce site that is not difficult to launch and maintain. This session also covers how large of an e-commerce site is needed to benefit your overall business plan. Even businesses who currently have an e-commerce site will benefit from this session. \;
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\n2:30 pm &ndash\; 3:00 pm Final Questions LOCATION:Union Street Bisro 48 Union St. S Concord\, NC 28025 UID:e.2418.5107246 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260524T065740Z URL:https://members.cabarrusncchamber.org/events/details/grow-your-business-through-social-media-e-commerce-5107246 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR